op ed review 7/28
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Mueller's Testimony: A Complete Disaster For Democrats
“Bumbling, rambling, confused testimony”
Mueller’s serial senior moments reveal he was a front-man
for Trump-haters.
“Mueller was a
'figurehead' in 'hoax' run by '19 leftist Clinton-donor lawyers' “
https://www.foxnews.com/media/donald-trump-jr-tucker-carlson-mueller-figurehead-russia-investigation
Mueller’s testimony equals end of any Trump impeachment talk
Deregulation explodes under Trump, 13 regulations killed for
every new one, $33B saved
Bookies overwhelmingly pick Trump to win reelection,
pollsters still have no clue what's going on.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jul/23/bookies-overwhelmingly-pick-trump-to-win-reelectio/
Trump leads 'a socialist' candidate by 6% in latest ABC-WaPo
poll.
Trump campaign, RNC, training army of volunteers in key 2020
states.
Top Democrat Think Tank Warns Party: You’re Losing
Immigration Messaging War to Trump
But here’s reason to worry: 'Not a Single' Demographic Trend 'Favors
Republicans' in Elections
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/21/axios-not-single-demographic-trend-favors-republicans/
By the numbers: From
October through the end of June, the Border Patrol apprehended more than
688,000 people, over half of them families and unaccompanied children.
Record 61,000 migrant children surge over border, $230M
spent for snacks, diapers, baby formula.
MAJOR GOOD NEWS: Supreme Court allows use of Pentagon funds for
border wall.
Democrats stunned, call border wall ruling 'regrettable' and
'nonsensical'.
Sanctuary King County, Washington Frees Hundreds of Illegal
Aliens Charged with Felonies
Drudge stirs the pot by noting that no new miles of border
wall have yet been built. That’s because
priority is on the existing dilapidated wall in high traffic areas. “Completed
Sections of Trump’s New Wall Helping Secure Border, Say Agents.”
Conservatives are told that President Trump is a racist on a
daily basis by the MSM. So, leftists can pardon our confusion when we read on
the State Department's page that the Trump administration honored a Muslim Imam
from Nigeria who put his own life in danger to protect Christians fleeing from
persecution.
Jewish Model Says She Received Rape & Death Threats For
Supporting Trump
Bernie Sanders Campaign Accused of Retaliating Against
Staffers for Unionizing
Sen. Elizabeth Warren Pledges Witch Hunts Against Pro-Israel
Trump Supporters
As a lawyer, Elizabeth Warren worked to limit Dow Chemical's
liability to breast implant victims.
Rep. Omar Berates Questioner for Asking Her to Condemn
Female Genital Mutilation
Rep. Tlaib: The federal minimum wage 'should be $20 an hour'
Rep. Tlaib: Take Money from Rich and Give It 'Back to the
People that Earned It'
Mainstream media to the rescue: “MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Says 'Squad' Members
Are Not Socialists”
A sure sign Democrats are scared of the revelations coming
in IG Horowitz's report on the FISA warrants.
IG report to allege Comey lied to Trump -- and spied on him.
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Ken Blackwell 7/25
Democrats
Use the Specter of Racism to Sow Racial Discord
Democrats
routinely blame Donald Trump for exacerbating racial tensions, but they're the
ones who made the stoking of ethnic conflict a hallmark of their electoral
strategy long before 2016.
President
Lyndon Johnson, for instance, reportedly viewed the 1964 Civil Rights Act and
the 1965 Voting Rights Act in purely cynical and racist terms, predicting that the new laws would enable
Democrats to secure the black vote for generations to come. Democrats
then spent the next several decades baselessly impugning their Republican
opponents as racists, but the practice really ramped up during the
administration of President Barack Obama.
As
the militant Black Lives Matter movement began calling for violence against
police officers and rioting in the streets, Obama added fuel to the fire with
his pronouncements on race. When the nation was divided over the
killing of black teenager Trayvon Martin, for instance, Obama remarked that if he had a son, he would look
like Martin.
When
Ferguson, Missouri was turned upside-down by protesters after a police officer
shot a black teenager who was trying to escape custody, Obama offered
perfunctory support for law enforcement yet simultaneously validated
the protesters by
saying he thinks their concerns are justified. When a black college
professor raised a national furor because a white police officer confused him
for a burglar as he was trying to enter his home through a window, Obama's
immediate response was to condemn the police department for "acting stupidly."
Obama's
divisive comments on issues of race made him sound tone-deaf to the nation as a
whole, but they were perfectly tailored to appeal to the increasingly radical
Democrat base. Particularly after the 2010 Census, many Democrats reached the conclusion
that demographic change was the key to forging a dominant electoral coalition
that would last in perpetuity. Once the United States became a
"majority-minority" country, the thinking went, Democrats would be
able to reap the electoral rewards using their well honed strategy of racial
pandering and fear-mongering. The end result would be nationwide
one-party rule, mirroring the Left's dominance of the State of California.
Democrats
have embraced this perspective wholeheartedly in recent years, turning the
politics of racial resentment into a cornerstone of the modern
Left. Even so-called "centrists," such as Joe Biden and
Hillary Clinton, have built their presidential campaigns on foundations of
radical identity politics just as intently as the party's far left wing.
Today,
one is just as likely to hear talk of "structural racism" and
"white privilege" from the lips of Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, or Robert
Francis "Beto" O'Rourke as from Senator Elizabeth Warren or
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Biden, who is trying to run
as a consummate centrist, even made the discredited Charlottesville
hoax the center of
his campaign launch.
Their
goal is to galvanize minority voters by stoking the unfounded fears of white
revanchism and by portraying Republicans as an imminent
danger. While Democrats have long deployed racial division as a
political tactic, today they appear to be constitutionally incapable of
discussing anything else.
This
has clearly had a pernicious effect on how Americans perceive race
relations. In 2012, it was considered beyond the pale for then–DNC
chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz to smear Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's
welfare policies as racist dog whistles. In 2019, though, those
sorts of senseless accusations of racism are daily and ubiquitous. No
wonder people think racial tensions have increased.
But
they also recognize that the deterioration of race relations has been driven by
the full-on embrace of racial identity politics by the mainstream media,
Democrat politicians, and liberal cultural elites. Even left-wing
outlet Vox recognizes that the trend began well before President Trump came to
power, referring to the change in public sentiment as a "Great
Awokening."
After
President Trump's recent tweets criticizing the quartet of radical
representatives who have taken control of the Democratic Party, liberal
journalists and politicians predictably came out in full force to slander the
president as a "racist." Their efforts to lay the blame
for racial division at the president's feet, however, are contradicted by the
toxic rhetoric they themselves have used to exploit and exacerbate existing
racial tensions. Mother Jones commentator Kevin Drum, for instance, has
even called for a
"literal or figurative war" against "[r]eactionary whites,"
a sentiment shared, albeit not often expressed in such explicit terms, by many
other liberal commentators.
Unlike
Barack Obama, President Trump was elected because he offered an agenda designed
to empower all Americans, not divide the country into arbitrary categories
based on race. If you are a citizen of this great nation, President
Trump stands for you and will fight for your interests.
Democrats,
on the other hand, fear the powerful appeal of this commonsense, patriotic
approach and have tried to balkanize the American electorate in hopes of
exploiting isolated identity groups with grievance politics. Their
selfish attempts to seize power have done real damage to American unity and our
ability to believe in a shared future.
The
American electorate must firmly reject the Democrats' attempts to divide and
conquer along racial lines. The best place to do that is at the
ballot box. President Trump's re-election might be the only way to
convince the Democrats to finally give up on their divisive, race-baiting
political strategy.
Pat Buchanan notes: “…most
of the Democratic candidates have admitted that, if elected, the border wall
will never be built, breaking into the country will cease to be a crime, ICE
will be abolished, sanctuary cities will be expanded, illegal immigrants will
be eligible for free health care and, for millions of people hiding here
illegally, amnesty and a path to citizenship will be granted. America, they are
saying, will be so unalterably changed in a few years, your kind will never
realize political power again, and your America will vanish in a different
America where the Squad and like-minded leftists set the agenda. Will the
deplorables, who number in the scores of millions, accept a future where they
and their children and children's children are to submit to permanent rule by
people who visibly detest them and see them as racists, sexists and fascists? Will
Middle America go gentle into that good night?”
“Do
You Understand that Democrats will Destroy America?
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“Democrats overwhelmingly support impeachment. Forty percent
of adults in the most recent Economist/YouGov survey say Congress should try to
impeach President Trump. That number rises to 70 percent among Democrats. It is
no wonder why. Trump is a one-man rebuke of progressivism, of political
correctness, of a humanitarianism that does not recognize citizenship or
national borders. Since 2016 an entire media-political infrastructure has been
built to push the messages that Trump's election was illegitimate, Trump's
actions in and out of office are criminal, and Trump ought to be excised from
the government as quickly as possible. Even if Mueller and his report fade from
view—and there is no guarantee they will—the president's adversaries will
continue to search for the annihilating angel who will deliver them from Donald
Trump. Why? Because the impeachment debate is not about what Trump has done, is
doing, or might do. It is about whether he and the social forces he represents
are entitled to rule.”
-Matthew
Continetti
“The conclusion one must draw is significant and
far-reaching. The 448 page dossier commonly referred to as the
Mueller Report was not written by Robert Mueller, nor did the Special Counsel
apparently review its findings or familiarize himself with the investigation
that led up to those findings. It is the Weissmann dossier, and it was written
by the highly partisan Democrat lawyer and Hillary Clinton supporter Andrew
Weissmann. Weissmann is best known for
wildly famous cases of prosecutorial overreach, including his overturned
prosecution of Enron officials and the auditing firm Arthur Andersen LLP, which
destroyed both firms and put over 100,000 people out of work.”
-Kenneth
Timmerman
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LEFTIST WATCH
Can’t get any more clear than this: “Of the Republican Party, MSNBC anchor Chris
Hayes said the other day: “It must be peacefully, nonviolently, politically destroyed
with love, compassion and determination, but utterly confronted and destroyed.
That is the only way to break the coalition apart…….The heart of the thing must
be ripped out. The darkness must be banished.” In other words, the new
progressive message is that…..the Trump base must be destroyed.”
?? Jesuit Magazine Makes ‘Catholic Case for Communism’
Major library association conference features training on how
to handle "community resistance" to drag queen events.
'Manhole' becomes 'maintenance hole' as Berkeley switches to
gender-neutral language.
When she stays off the subject of Trump, former Reagan
speechwriter Peggy Noonan still has some perceptive observations about the
Left.
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GOOD SATIRE
“According to a report from the Centers for Disease Control
released on Thursday, people with inside, compromising knowledge of Bill and
Hillary Clinton’s financial and political dealings are 843% more likely to commit
suicide…Interestingly, in spite of their increased suicide risk, people with
dirt on the Clintons rarely show any warning signs of suicide, and they never
leave a suicide note.”
Babylon Bee: “Representative Ilhan Omar has introduced a
resolution to the House of Representatives condemning the three things she
finds most dangerous to society: racism and white men and "also the
Jews."
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GLOBALONEY
Two Democrat Senators unveil carbon tax bill that would cost
Americans $2.5 trillion in 10 years.
The One Person Who Shows Just How Unhinged Global Warming
Alarmism Has Become
Climate Obsessed Democrats Wrong on the Summer Heat Wave
California solar panel mandate could cost new homeowners big
California's latest descent into liberal madness – Berkeley
bans natural gas.
The Fake Science of Global Warming
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ARTICLES
“The Mueller
performance was so jarringly disjointed that this man offered up as a rock of
virtue and competence has been reduced to the image of a figurehead, installed
so that his brand could add heft to a futile undertaking. One is left to wonder
whether Mueller himself has read the report that bears his name. As Mueller’s
testimony day passes into memory, many will conclude that it was a dud, a zero,
a misfire. It was far worse. It was a gut-punch to the entire Democrat
storybook, a disaster that will drain the interest of all but their sharpest
partisans. And it goes beyond the simple stain of failure; it casts doubt on
the basic instincts of the promoters of this pitiful moment of political
theater.”
The Death Penalty Is Pro-Life. And Those Who Oppose It
Usually Aren't.
Spengler is always worth reading: “Conservatives ponder how to bell the cat”
Charlie Kirk: Trump Breaks Globalist Bush-Obama Uniparty
Consensus
Liberal nightmare: Takeover of federal judiciary by “larval
Scalias” is devastatingly close to completion”
The Democrats' Blueprint To Steal 2020 From The Voters Of
America.
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INTERESTING
Chevy redefines an American icon with the $60,000 2020
Corvette Stingray: 495 HP, 0-60 in 3 seconds.
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WISE
WORDS
“The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than
their abilities; and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more
assiduity than the head.”
-Noah
Webster
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